David Bushby (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—My understanding, and I have just received advice from the clerks, is that normally the advices of these proposals to meet are circulated, appropriately, to the whips. The first we knew about it yesterday was that it was on the draft red. We indicated at the cross-whips meeting last night that we did not have a position. The reason we did not have a position was that we had not received the circulated notice. The advice I have received is that that was an oversight. They normally are circulated; this one was not. The reason why we could not form a position as to whether we should proceed was that it was not circulated to our office.